Cycnogeton multifructum

Water Ribbons at The Ridgeway, NSW

Cycnogeton multifructum at The Ridgeway, NSW - 27 Oct 2019
Cycnogeton multifructum at The Ridgeway, NSW - 27 Oct 2019
Cycnogeton multifructum at The Ridgeway, NSW - 27 Oct 2019
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Identification history

Cycnogeton multifructum 28 Oct 2019 MichaelBedingfield
Cycnogeton multifructum 28 Oct 2019 MichaelBedingfield
Cycnogeton multifructum 27 Oct 2019 JaneR

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User's notes

This is not robust enough to be C. procerum, so by default I assume it is Cycnogeton multifructum (Triglochin multifructum). Latest Census (4.1) gives only one species Cycogeton multifructum for ACT. Pool level in river is falling and plant likely to be desiccated before setting fruit. I couldn't find it under Other Water Plant

4 comments

   28 Oct 2019
We had it under rushes & sedges, which was probably the wrong place because we didn't have other water plants until recently. I have moved it.
BettyDonWood wrote:
   28 Oct 2019
Technically, it is a sort of sedge. The leaves are sedge like.
JaneR wrote:
   28 Oct 2019
that is interesting. I have not seen it listed or described as a sedge before.
BettyDonWood wrote:
   29 Oct 2019
You are right. That is why I said ‘a sort of sedge’ following the rhyme Sedges have edges and rushes are round’. Sedges in the narrow sense are in the family Cyperaceae eg the genera Cyperus, Carex.

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Species information

  • Cycnogeton multifructum Scientific name
  • Water Ribbons Common name
  • Not Sensitive
  • Rare or uncommon native
  • Non-invasive or negligible
  • Up to 752.47m Recorded at altitude
  • Machine learning
  • In flower
  • External link More information
  • Synonyms

    Triglochin multifructa Triglochin multifructum
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